Caroline Allen
For more than two decades I’ve been honing the scheduling around my creative practice. And I’ve been helping book clients and others do the same. As a novelist, visual artist, and coach, I’ve had to learn the magic of transition from helping others to working on my craft. I’ve had to figure out the best schedule for my creative energies on a daily, monthly, seasonal, and annual basis. And as is the…
I grew up in rural Missouri with conservative parents. Almost every lesson I learned as a girl (knitting, sewing, cooking, cleaning) was how to run a household and how to support a man.I wanted out.I wanted to find own way.I wanted a real voice.First, I had to reach escape velocity.Once I did, once I was out, I was left alone. It was fine to do my own thing, as long as…
Painting by Caroline Allen. I was at the beach at Nehalem Bay in Oregon a few months ago. A 5-year-old girl was doing the worm in the sand, her mother standing nearby. "Is that the worm?" I asked her. "Yes!" She wormed some more. She jumped up and ran up to me and my dog Atlas. I held his leash tight. He's twice her size and weight, and I was worried…
How do we heal our relationship with money? I'm not just talking about making more money or acquiring more possessions? I'm talking about healing our integrity with money. I'm talking about healing our relationship with the earth. In my most recently released fourth novel, WATER, I wrote a scene about a woman in a pub burning money. She does this as a joke, as an experiment to see how others will…